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Maybe I watched too much Care Bears growing up, but I love to share, and so that's what I spend most of my time working on. Whether it's travel tips, manga, Sims 3 goodies, craft tutorials, book reviews, recipes, or handmade goods, I am always trying to put my creativity towards something.

Friday, October 01, 2010

One of the first things I did when The Sims 3 came out was make an artistic Sim--you know, a starving artist. It started out okay. I mean, when they don't have any painting skill, you expect them to paint crap.

When my little Sim got to level five and was still painting crap, I started to feel a little disheartened. Level eight showed a few decent things, but also... crap. A couple of these pieces of crap even earned the title of "masterpiece."

Anyway, I did it. All 1,580 paintings have been replaced. Sixteen of the paintings are originals from the game, just moved to what I considered a more appropriate level/category, and most of the rest are from browsing the web and deviantART. A list of artists can be found at the bottom, and, if you see a particular image you'd like to know the artist for, leave a comment and I'll get you that information.

And so I bring you...Plum's Painting Replacement Mod

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A painting that has no trait influence can be basically anything that doesn't fit into another category. Basically, it doesn't fit in any of the other categories.

replacement

Artistic Sims add a bit of dramatic flair to their paintings. Their portraits contain more interesting subjects, colors, and angles than the basic artist.

Sims who can't stand art don't like anything to fancy or abstract; they are likely to stick to portraits and still lifes. Nothing open to interpretation here!

If a Sim is a computer whiz they are probably also a geek, and so their artwork is often fanart and/or anime style. If your Sim is a computer geek you can expect Mario isn't far behind!

Bright colors, heavy brush strokes, floral still-lifes, and kitties regularly grace the canvas of a genius Sim. They are also well studied, picking up such styles as impressionism and cubism early in their art careers, and using those techniques often.

Grumpy Sims' art can be notably depressing. You'll rarely ever see them pant a smile on anyone.

Insane Sims are more likely to paint stuff that'll hopefully make your face go o_O. They often have to do with eating something that is not food.

Neurotic Sims often paint the things they obsess about, including bugs, sinks, cleanliness, and other abstract still-lifes.

Virtuosos paint in a refined style, especially art nouveau and Alphonse Mucha replicas. Their art also often relates to music.

The file is a little big for a mod (110MB), but that's not very big at all considering it contains 1,580 images, now is it? I ran at super speed for a good long time with the rest of my CC loaded and found no problems or game slowing or any such thing.

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Wow, I can't even imagine how much time and effort must have gone into this. I don't really play the game but all of this art is so beautiful i might just have to download it. Thanks for the hard work.

This is awesome! I have lots of painter sims in my neighborhood and I was getting tired of seeing them all paint the same things. Plus, I always hated those Photoshop filters they used. What happens when sims have more than one of the traits? Like if a sim is artistic and a virtuoso? Will they just paint from both selections of paintings, or just pick one style at random?

I just finished looking through the pics and they're great. I was kind of disappointed in the lack of Futurama, though. There's lots of cool Futurama fan art out there that would be great for the game.

This mod is so wonderful, and representative of so much creativity, ingenuity and hard work, that I can't praise it enough. It is one of my absolute favourite mods for the game, and I don't think I could play without it. I've had many artist and non-artist sims with all sorts of traits painting in the game and I still haven't plumbed its depths!

I'm wondering, though, given that there are two new traits added with Generations (Nurturing and Rebellious), what will happen when Sims with those traits try to paint? Will it cause errors?

If that is the case, is the mod going to be updated for Generations (and does it even need to be?) Hopefully, for your sake (since this seems to have been a ton of work) it won't even need to be updated.

Since this mod is a simple texture replacement, I really doubt it'll have any problems in future expansions. It's possible, I suppose, but I don't think it's likely.

I do plan on getting Generations sometime in the next few days and testing it though.

As for the new traits--not all traits affect an artist's work, so I guess it depends on whether or not these ones come with their own set of paintings that determines whether or not the mod needs updating.

I am in looove with this mod!! O_O but from both download links it won't download! D': Is it possible for it being split or something as it won't go past 7%! *bashes computer* :O *undents with plunger* *shiftyeyes* XD

It's probably your connection. It downloaded for me fine from MediaFire, though the file seems to have expired on RapidShare. I uploaded it to 4shared for you, hope it works: http://www.4shared.com/file/V63ba7OL/plum_mod_paintingreplacements.html

Thankyou so much for doing this! I noticed some of my favorite works from Dev art.This must have taken forever! Can't wait to test this in my game. I wanted to ask will this replace paintings that are already painted?

So, I feel like a total n00b. Everything downloaded properly and works in-game, I was just seeing the .package file as something different than the other .package files I've seen, and I got confused. Haha, thank you so much for your quick response and help!

I haven't, no. I'm waiting for TSR to come out with that fix before I install Pets, and I'm going to be gone for the next couple of days, so I hope I'll get around to it... Saturday? Based on what I've read about the problems, I don't think it will affect the mod, since it's just a simple texture replacements (well 1,580 simple texture replacements). I'm pretty confident that the mod will work just fine.

Thank you so much for your reply, Plum. We were speculating that your mod wouldn't mess anything up, but like you, a lot of people are holding off on installing any mods back in until we get the TSR patch. If someone gets brave and decides to test it, I will give you a hollar. Thanks again!

I dunno what to tell you--it seems to work for everyone else, as far as I know. It's a pretty simple mod, so if the other files in your Packages folder are working then I can't see any reason why this texture replacement wouldn't.

I would find a link to instructions for you when I get home (I'm responding from my phone) but it would be faster if you just Googled it yourself. Search for something like "how to install Sims 3 custom content."

omg i stumbled upon this siye by accident but once i statred reading what it was about i was like WOW! i love the sims and have the same problem of boring paintings! but i dont know how to go about getting this....Someone please help! i'll check back to see if anyone replied!

I've now patched to 1.36. I love this mod, but for some reason my game currently won't load with it installed, although it loads with other mods installed. As soon as the green bar starts filling up, the screen turns black and it just shuts down. Is anyone else having this issue? I'd hate to have to play without the mod, so I'm hoping there's an easy fix. bettyb

About patch 1.36, I just reformatted my computer and don't have the game installed to test it. If anyone else has problems with it (or not) I hope to hear about it, but if other texture replacement mods are working then there shouldn't be a problem with this one.

I have a number of mods, NRaas, awesome, Buzzler's and Anach's, but for some reason when I put the painting replacement in, the game won't even load; the bar never fills. (I have repeatedly tested this) But maybe it's a framework issue. I'll try reinstalling the resource.cfg file and see if that fixes it. I really can't do without this mod! bettyb

First off thank you so much for this fantastic mod! I have a question about uploading. Will the modded paintings display in homes I upload on the exchange or will the paintings appear as the EA paintings?

I can't imagine a reason why a simple texture replacement would cause that. Then again, the game is known to be really weirdly buggy. Maybe your computer didn't have enough memory to handle the mod? It is a fairly big file and I don't know how much CC you have otherwise. I wouldn't know how to fix that though. I've had problems with Sims turning invisible, and I can't remember how I fixed it, but I remember I found the solution while searching through Google and/or MTS. -Plum

Thank you for a great mod! Downloaded last night, popped it into my mods folder & started up game :-) then had to wait ages for my painter Sim to do boring things such as socialising & washing & eating before getting her to paint! Quite funny, her favourite colour is pink & both paintings she's done so far & the one we have hanging in the house are very pink. Looking forward to playing my artistic legacy family & seeing what they do with their varied traits!

I just wanted to thank you! You are amazing and I cant imagine all the hard work you have put into this. I really look forward to playing it. The big gallery one that is like 440 MB on rapidshare isnt downloading but I downloaded the three parts. Love this!! Are there any other good sites to find paintings to replace ones? I have pictures but they dont look pantingy if that makes sense XD

Wow! Its an amazing job! But it semm I can't download it from any link showed. The mediafire link don't load the page to download it. The rapidshare and 4shared link tell me the file doesnt exist .. :'( Can someone help me?

Hi! I absolutely love this mod, so first of all thank you for making it! However, after installing Into the Future EP I noticed that while all of the already painted painting retain their replaced pictures, any new painting seem to be of the original 158. At first I wasn't sure if this was the case because I had a child sim painting, and whiel I thought the paintings were so EA and unlike all the other ones my sim children had painted, I thought perhaps I'd just missed them. In my other save however I had an adult sim start a large painting and it turned out to be one of those awful mosaic ones, which I'm pretty sure you hadn't left in. Any idea what oculd be causing this? I'm on patch 1.63, but this problem didn't emerge until I installed into the future (I hadn't bought it when it came out), so I'm assuming it must have something to do with the holo easels?

I have a question. I installed this and it's working fine. I even went through and replaced some of the paintings with some things of my own. BUT my sim has started painting a piece that I can't find anywhere at all. My sim is painting just a solid light brown canvas. He's done this a few times now. I've searched through the gallery and didn't find it. And even use s3pe preview all 1500+ pictures in the package and couldn't find anything. Anyone have an idea?

Sorry guys, I haven't played TS3 for probably at least two years and I don't have any of the most recent EPs so I'm really not in a place to be helpful. This mod has an open sharing policy so if anyone wants to update/tweak/etc and re-share elsewhere feel free. -Plum